Workers conduct a digital collection of murals at Cave 148 of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. CHINA DAILY Gansu province will accelerate the digital restoration of cultural relics lost ...

The First Sight of Dunhuang, a new book of 112 restored mural artworks of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, and nearby Yulin Caves. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A new book ...

Coupled with increasingly warm temperatures, this degradation will only get worse, and could even result in large sections of murals falling off. Extreme weather also challenges the integrity of the ...

The Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, a hub of ancient Chinese Buddhist art and spirituality, fell victim to extensive looting in the early 20th century. Today, the priceless relics taken from this sacred ...

It's no wonder that the Mogao painters, illustrating the greatest of all Silk Road imports, infused their murals with an array of foreign elements, from pigments to metaphysics. "The caves are a ...

The caves were connected by wooden walkways and ladders. The murals inside the Mogao Grottoes are valued as an encyclopedia of ancient times in Chinese history between 4th-14th centuries since ...

The Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Dunhuang, is renowned for its hundreds of Buddhist caves adorned with murals and statues dating back roughly 1,600 years. Workers conduct a ...

Recently, a large public exhibition titled "Dunhuang Aesthetics and Its Connection to the World" featuring digital art representations of Dunhuang murals ... the Mogao Caves at a 1:1 scale ...

To date, the digital collection of murals from 295 caves ... high-resolution digital images of the Mogao Grottoes and digital resources from the Library Cave. In 2025, Gansu will host the global ...